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Ship Princeflu and Caribean News from Port St. Marys
Dated 1737 1738 items report the ship Princeflu and the Guarda Costas from Carthegena arriving with tobacco cacao and fruits and Joh n Baptist alias Britania registering at Havana while two Hondurans Registers await. A death Lou Broughton South Carolina Lieutenant Governor and other colonial notes follow. Commodore Brown sails for West Indies with orders from the Lords of the Admiralty. A Vienna note hints at negotiations for funds to continue war with the Turks. A jail wine dispute in Xerez ends with a demand to pay 34 dollars per butt or face penalties. Fire at a colourman’s cellar near Aldgate and other London items close the excerpt.
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Hampton Coart
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Sidney College
Cambridge
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Scampford
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Howell
Jersey
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Glamorganthire
Manfel
Margam
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